Kinsey



(No Model.)

T. LEE. GAR noon.

Patented Feb.'5 1884.

INVEVNTOR 5% W ITNEssEs:

UNIT D STATES PAT NT Price.

'rrionns Lnn,. or oixo nnn'rt'onio, ASSIGNOR or onnnanr 'To' OLIVER KINSEY, or SAME PLACE.

CAR-DOOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,181, dated February 5, 1884-.

' Application filed September 13, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS Lnn, of Oincim nati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improveinent in Car-Doors, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and'aecompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective elevation of the interior of a car, showing the car-door in pom sition. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-view of the door and side of the car. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the floor and side of the ear, showing the groove in the floor; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view I 5 of the under side of the door itself.

The object of the present invention is to provide a car-door so arranged that it is capable of holding grain of any character, and

so constructed that it can be attached to any car now in use; and it consists in providing the sill of the car-door opening with two plates, placed a slightdistance apart, and in equipping .the door with a downwardly-projectingfiange or plate on theunder side or lower edge of the door, which flange or plate is designed to enter the groove or recess formed ;by the two sillplates. The doorjambs within are proi ided with vertical rods, between which the door is placed, and staples over these rods enter the door near the upper edge, so that the door when raised or lowered will slide on these rods, all of which will now be set forth indetail. I

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the floor of any ordinary box-car, and B the side of the car.

' 0 represents the jambs of the door, and D the door. The janibs G are made in the usual manner, or req'uire no change from the ordi- 40 nary method of constructing the door-openings. The floor, however, or that part within the doorway between the jambs O G, has a plate, E, sunk therein flush with the upper surface of the floor. The inner edge of this 4 5 plate projects in beyond the j amb C a distance equal to the thickness of the door. lVithin the plate is placed a second plate, F, which is provided with right-angled ends G. The

plate G is placed a slight distance from the 5 plate F, so as to provide a groove, H, between .as shown. rods, and staples M are drlven into the vertlprojecting edges of the plate J rest in the the same. I represents one of a series of holes a or perforations from the under side of the floor, communicating with the groove H, soas to provide'a means for cleaning said groove, or providing for the escape of seeds as they fall 5 5 into said groove. The door itself is' constructed in the ordinary manner, and is equipped on the lower end with the plate J on the inner side, which plate projects beyond the lower end. The two vertical ends of the door are also provided with plates as wide as the {thickness of the door, and these plates also extend down below the lower edge of the door even with the plate J. The outer edge, K, of these vertical strips 6 5' also projects slightly, so as to extend over past the edge of the facing-strips O on the inner face of the janib O. The projecting portions of these plates J K rest in the groove l-I when the door is in position. the door-jainbs C O are placed two rods, L L, their upper ends extending up to or near the car-roof. The terminals of these rods are bent at right angles and driven into the door-j ambs, The door is placed between these cal edges of the door at its upper end, which staples slide on the rods L. It will thus be observed that the door when in position is on the inner side of the car, with the body of the door resting against the facingstrips C. of the j amb, while the vertical strips, K, whose edges K project, rest against thejambs G. The lower ends of the strips K and the lower groove H, thus preventing the grain from, forcing its way under the door and gradually raising it, and also keeping the grainfrom forcing its way out between the door and the jamb, owing to the interposition of the facingplate 0 and projecting edge K of strip K.

To more securely hold the'door in position, it is necessary to have some permanent and easy manner of holding the door on the outside. To accomplish this I provide each side' 9 5 of the janibs with an eccentric plate, N, and secure to the door adjacent thereto a lever, O, which lever is provided on the side with a catch or lug adapted ,to come in contact with the eccentric, so that the door will, by the ac- On the inner sides of ,zo

tion of the lever, be brought snugly up against the jamb and held there.

It is obvious that other means may be employed to hold the door against the jamb than herein shown.

When it is desired to open the door for any purpose, the levers O are removed from the eccentrics and the door bodily raised, and the lower end swung inwardly and elevated, as shown by dotted lines I Fig. 1. A hook, Q,

. secured to the roof of the ear, serves to hold claim anysuch feature of invention, but sim- 1 ply the groove in the floor of the opening eX- j tending the length of the door, within which the fiange at the bottom of the door fits.

' \Vhat I claim as new is I do not I 1. A plain car-door frame having along the floor an angled groove or recess, H, to receive the flange of the door, said groove having holes I through the floor, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The floor of the car-door opening having the angled groove H, in combination with the door D, having the projecting or flanged ends J K to enter the grooved floor, substantially as herein set forth.

3. The combination of the ear-door opening having the angled groove E in the floor and the vertical bars or rods L 011 the sides, with the door D, having the staples or eyes M and the flanged lower end, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, this 3d day of September, 1883, in the presence of witnesses.

' THOMAS LEE.

Witnesses:

J. S. Z'nunn, ALICE BRENNAX. 

